The Case for Recruiting Mitch Brown?

[bulldogtragic]

- Hamling is leaving
- Adams may be leaving
- Hurley re-signed, Marchbank wants to Carlton and there's not much better available

- Mitch Brown is a Free Agent, and comes for free
- Mitch Brown is 100% returning to Victoria as his wife's Netball Career has brought her to Victoria

- Mitch Brown is 27, 195cm, 95kg and has 94 games experience
- Mitch Brown averages 11 disposals per game, 3.2 marks which is about the same as Hamling, & better than Nathan Brown
- Mitch Brown is a competent one on one defender
- Mitch Brown is experienced in playing zone defence, and in complex systems like we use


Is that strong enough of a case?

[Rocco Jones]

- Mitch Brown is a competent one on one defender
- Mitch Brown is experienced in playing zone defence, and in complex systems like we use

He is a competent one on one defender but does he play well in a team defence? The Eagles just used him as a forward/ruck this year, he was woeful in the game against us.

I would rather go short with a 188cm team defence type than play a tall who gets lost in our style i.e Talia.

[1eyedog]

Would rather play Collins all year than Brown.

[bulldogtragic]

He is a competent one on one defender but does he play well in a team defence? The Eagles just used him as a forward/ruck this year, he was woeful in the game against us.

I would rather go short with a 188cm team defence type than play a tall who gets lost in our style i.e Talia.

He was played out of position against us by a WCE match committee too cute by half. They thought McG, Barass & Hurn would cover the back and Brown could stretch us down back with Giles, Lycett, Darling & Kennedy. Arguably McGovern was worse on the night and also ended up rucking and playing third string forward. Eric McKenzie had the nod for the spot they were battling for most of the year. I'm not sure he's not competent in a modern system defence. But if he's not good enough to hold a place in our side then we bviously pass and we go smaller. But if we lose two key defenders we have no real depth if we get one or two injuries next year.

[1eyedog]

Fletch, Collins, Cordy and if the shit hits the fan Cloke and Roughie. There's enough to get through the year and reload if it doesn't work out next week. Even if Adams goes as well we have been in worse positions with our key defensive stocks. At one point we had Brian Lake and that was it.

FWIW I think Adams will stay the extra year now, that is if we don't bring someone in next week.

[jeemak]

Has there been any interest in him as a free agent from any club at all?

[Greystache]

To be honest I'd rather play Bailey Dale as a key defender than recruit either Brown.

[comrade]

Recruiting a washed up Brown brother or Lonergan doesn't strike me as a Bevo move.

[whythelongface]

To be honest I'd rather play Bailey Dale as a key defender than recruit either Brown.

I'll raise you Caleb Daniel as a key defender ahead of Mitch Brown.

[bulldogtragic]

Has there been any interest in him as a free agent from any club at all?

Yep. Apparently been interviewed by a few clubs with WCE stating he will be in Victoria this year. St Kilda were after him at his last contract expiration, and may be front runners.

[Raw Toast]

Not against taking Brown actually - Beveridge has a very good record at taking people who are not rated that highly and turning them into more than decent defenders within his team-defence system. Wouldn't want to pay overs for him of course but he's had moments of significant promise during his career.

[bulldogtragic]

Not against taking Brown actually - Beveridge has a very good record at taking people who are not rated that highly and turning them into more than decent defenders within his team-defence system. Wouldn't want to pay overs for him of course but he's had moments of significant promise during his career.

That's certainly the counter argument. Not a big contract at all, but he's much better than a state league player that might get suggested as a strategy for depth in the KPD department if we trade Adams out and don't find a better long term solution.

[jeemak]

Yep. Apparently been interviewed by a few clubs with WCE stating he will be in Victoria this year. St Kilda were after him at his last contract expiration, and may be front runners.

I have no issues with using him as cover, but not as anything else and I don't want to pay him squat.

If other clubs are into him that pretty much rules us out.

[soupman]

No. Brown is unlike Adams and Hamling in that he doesn't have anything else to his game other than being a limited stopper.

Hamling is a versatile size meaning he can play on a variety of opponents, and has shown an ability to take intercept marks.

Adams is a very mobile key defender who can also take intercept marks very well.

Maybe Adams leaving means that we start orrying about forwards monstering us again, however Roberts was good this season and Colins is surely a fairly close physical match for Brown with the benefit of scope for improvement in other areas and fresh knees.

Surely there is another key defender out there.

[Sedat]

I've seen nothing from Mitch Brown to suggest he has a future in the game as a flexible key defender in a zone structure. No thanks from me.